Server Help

Falco_ · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject: ifstream help

Could someone help me with a top 5 plug. Basically it will record all of the players that have played elim and will search through a file to find the best to worst rec and will display it when you say !top # Does merv support searching through a file and deleting old info? (For example: a name is already in a file, and has its win:loss ratio; i want to change it but del the old info) If there is a better way to do this please tell me because i always code the long way. lol.

CypherJF · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:54 pm Post subject:

No merv doesn't support a feature such as this natively. I personally like using INI files because their quick and ez - though they are probably inefficient? But as for you, I'd suggest making your own internal structure - read the data from the file - handling the ordering of the data as you read in each new entry.
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Falco_ · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:32 am Post subject: ifstream

Purge · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:40 am Post subject:

If you need help making the bot read from a text file such as an INI, refer here.

Bak · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject: Re: ifstream

Read the data in from the file as you write it out to a temporary file (or a temporary data structure). Update any data you want. Copy the temp file back over the original one (or from the data structure).
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